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Can you believe I managed to skip a few monthly shopping features only to finally find a theme for this month last weekend?
Looks like we are having yet another case of festive vortex at play here!

Sure, the way it is going this shopping spread could totally work as a gift idea list for Diwali. But for some rather obvious reasons, "Stationery September" is far more catchy a title than "Stationery October". Sue me!

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you probably know how crazy I am about all things notebooks and stationery supplies in general. I simply can't resist cute binder clips, pens and diaries. I feel so much more productive with the prettier versions of everyday desk and office items.

With the end of the year coming soon and the scope to start afresh with new diaries, planners and make resolutions to stay organised many of you will take. There is no better time to start getting inspired and vow to make those desk items cuter than ever as well.

With this in mind, I made a starter list of all things stationery and cute Amazon has to offer. And like every shopping guide, the links given below will be affiliate links. If you end up buying anything, I get paid a commission (at no extra cost whatsoever for you).

So, without any further ado, and before we run out of September time, here is my pick of the month:

1) Binder clips are the most versatile thing to have around. Take my word for it, I use them All. The. Time.
To hold paper, bookmark pages in my notebooks, on my kitchen door to hold important notes, for my craft projects, and as photo props. Since they are long lasting, it really really make sense to invest in a bunch of really cute looking ones like these adorable blue ones.

2) The crap pad. Sure, you could list all the crap you need to do on a regular piece of paper, but then it will be just crap that might even make you unhappy. This pad will at least keep you smiling.
The seller "Knock Knock by Mufubu" has a whole range of hilarious note pads and sticky notes to gift to your friends or keep to yourself. Including the equally noteworthy "Get your shit together pad", you know, just in case the crap pad is not strong enough for you.

3) Sticky tape! The thing that seem to always vanish and make itself scarce when you need it the most.
Well, with boring old dispensers you'd rather dump in a corner that is no wonder it happens. Time to replace it with a stylish version for your desk, you are guaranteed not to loose it, or at the least notice it when someone took it away from its designed spot.

4) A funky diary for your thoughts, lists, doodles or plans is something I will never ever ever discourage anybody from buying.
This adorable donut notebook is one I actually own. I found it in my local stationery shop and have big big plans for it.
I decided to try a bullet journal approach in 2017 and pretty much make the page of my planner as I go along (I'll get back to that in a few months...stay tuned).

I can 100% vouch for the quality of the paper in that notebook, and if this cover doesn't appeal to you, know that the Indian company "Look What Happened" has a lot more designs in store where this one comes from.So go pick up your kind of cute already!

5) If you are a creative soul, you understand the struggle of having too many pens, markers and brushes to keep neat and tidy around your work area. This super gorgeous Aqua tin is actually on my "To buy soon" list. Four compartment is pretty much the minimum I need to tame my creative tools at the moment.

We've had quite a rainy stretch last week, just when I was cleaning my whole flat and saying hello back to pretty decor.
On a particularly gloomy rainy day I suddenly decided to hang my blue curtains back in the living room and do a new tassel make over.

I did have a very cute black and white tassels look going on last January. But, then a few weeks later, the ceiling came crashing down in my living room. This led to me having to take down the curtains when the workers came to fix the ceiling, and after washing them I never bothered putting them back up.
After all, Summer was pointing it's ugly head and the prospect of living behind shut balcony doors was already daunting enough without having curtains block out the already reduced natural light.

Fast forward to presents days, and I felt ready to have a little decorative oomph back on my balcony door frame.
And because the rain was still quite depressing, I felt the need to have a few bright stars on my curtains.

I had to wait a bit longer for the rain to leave us alone (if only just momentarily) to be able to take decent enough pictures of my forever dark, north facing living room (and still photoshop it heavily).

The project is a simple one, what you really need for it is some card stock paper (any colour will do, you can still paint it), some paint, and a few glass beads.

The first step is to make a template for your star using lining paper (or baking parchment since I didn't have anything else on hand).
I got this star from a book called "The Big Book of Weekend Crafts: Over 90 Step-by-step Projects" Which is a great book filled with paper, mosaic, candle making and glass painting ideas and comes with quite a few patterns you can use as templates.

Once your template is drawn, simply copy it as many times as you need on some card stock paper.
I then spray painted all my stars with gold and silver paint, mostly because I had spray paint left over. You can totally do it with plain old acrylic paint though.

As you can see in the picture above, I did make some cute little tassels with glass beads to hang at the bottom of my stars. Not only does it looks pretty it also act as a weight to keep the stars from flying and twisting.

I slid my curtain in a couple of old metallic bangles and tied them to a hook on the wall. Then, I took a length of white wool and tied it at the top of my stars. I added a few big beads to the string to prettify it and weight my "starry tassel" further down. Last but not least, I tied my two stars to the bangles and added a pretty gold and blue bow to finish the look.

It may look like the type of decor one would do for Christmas, and if you are already planning that far ahead, by all mean save this idea. For me though, those cute stars are just a nice "in-between" decor idea since I usually go all "Red-white-green-and-gold" for the holidays.

It's been raining like crazy for the past 5-6 days and this pretty much had me on a standby on every front, including blogging (poor lights makes for poor pictures, even with Photoshop involved).

While I didn't blog, and didn't workout as much as I planned this week, I managed to keep myself busy on the creative front (you'll have to stay tuned...)

One of the project I got involved was a simple mouse pad project that took me no more than 5 minutes.

Over the years, we have killed our fair share of mouse pads and the latest one was really starting to look like it's seen better days:

This is a mouse pad that DH got free at work and we've been abusing it for well over a year. As you can see, the fabric on top of it is peeling off completely but the black foam underneath is still in ok condition.

I started by buying a sheet of craft foam at my local arts supplies shop, this wild and crazy expense set me a cool 30 rupees. To be fair this was the price of the sheet I used for that project. I bought this purple one, and a fabric lined foam sheet that looked super cute.

I ended up using the purple one because the mouse was performing a tad bit better on it than on the fancy fabric lined foam. Plus, the plain purple foam will be a bit easier to keep clean a bit longer.

Equipped with my foam sheet, I then peeled off the yucky fabric off the mouse pad to be left with a nice rectangle of black anti-skid foam.

I then grabbed my tube of "All Fix" glue (the type of glue that is transparent, is super gooey) and applied it all over the black foam surface.
Then, I immediately placed my purple foam on top of the glued surface and pressed it down evenly.

I finished it off by trimming the extra purple foam with a regular pair of scissors, and VOILA! You get a new mouse pad in minutes!

If you want to do a whole mouse pad from scratch, it's as easy. You simply need a piece of cardboard to glue the foam onto, or get a thick piece of craft foam (mine was pretty thick to be fair) and use it as it is after cutting it to the desired shape.

With these words, I will wrap it up and glide my mouse on my new mouse pad and click "Publish".

I get asked quite frequently where I get all my art supplies. It's an easy enough question to answer when it comes from people living in my neighbourhood. We are blessed to have a well stocked stationery and art supply shop that pretty much sells everything.

I also sometimes have some people who do not reside in India but visit the country frequently enough being amazed at the fact I manage to do craft project. Those who fall in this category are usually married to Indians but only visit for vacation and have in-laws who aren't particularly crafty or art inclined.
Doing serious crafty things is something that has become more "mainstream" only fairly recently, and yes, when I was still fairly new to India, I did feel a tad bit frustrated trying to find art supplies. This post from 2006 sums up this particular frustration I had pretty well.
I followed up with a rather brief post in 2014 about where to find basics craft supplies (A post I will have to revamp soon).

What I never did though, is giving you a rundown of my favourite brands and art supplies items.
To make this post easier, I am going to tap into my Amazon affiliate program and give you links of items you can easily find on Amazon, but know there are many other shopping source for those items (including your local stationery shop).

So, are you ready to know what I consider a good buy when it comes to arts and craft supplies?

Let's dive in!

Acrylic paint

Acrylic paint is my ABSOLUTE favourite paint. Most of the paint project featured on this blog have been done with Acrylic paint, and my favourite, cost effective and easy to find just about anywhere brand is Camel.

I usually buy each tube separately in the large or medium size because I use it enough to make it worth it. If you are new to painting and wish to stick to just paper and canvas painting at first, I recommend getting yourself a set like the one in the picture above. If you like it, you can still build on it and graduate to bigger tubes, or even pots.

Note though that Poster paint and Acrylic paint are two VERY different paints. Acrylic paint becomes waterproof once it has dried up, poster paint remains water soluble.

3D liner / glitter glue

If you've been following this blog long enough, you know I am totally addicted to the stuff, especially the gold liner and gold glitter liner.

This stuff really holds to just about any surface. The best quality one is from Fevicryl (a brand that belongs the Pidilite, the maker of Fevicol). The other brand that is giving excellent results (at par with Fevicryl) is Camel. Seriously when it comes to pain and art supplies Camel, or Camlin Kokuyo which is the same brand is pretty much a name you can trust for quality.

Paper punchers

If you are into journaling and scrapbooking, these cute little paper punchers are going to be your best friends.

They exist in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, some more expensive than others. The cheap ones are still decent enough and I own a few. I think the most famous project that involved a paper punch was Ishita's fairy house.

Be mindful though that the cheaper, non branded ones tend to become a bit rusty and aren't quite sharp to begin with. You'll need to punch really really hard at time (great stress buster though).

If you have a significantly big enough project or find yourself using a shape more often than not, invest in a quality puncher. I have seen the Fiskars ones in action, some are pricier than others, but Fiskars is a leading international brand when it comes to cutting tools.

Washi tape

Is there anything that cannot be embellished with Washi tape? Judging by what goes on Pinterest, the answer is a resounding NO.

You can do pretty much anything with this tape, the sky's the limit!

I use mine mostly in my journals, including the Summer of 2016 project. I acquired quite a few over time, most of them from my local stationery shop, but a few of them were purchased online as well.

Fineliner pens

I've been using these pens since I was a teenager, long before Pinterest and all the "bullet journalers" and Midori travel notebook addicts out there told you they were the coolest thing ever.

I used them in every colours possible to make the notes I took in school easier to read, that is how awesome they are!

I cannot recommend that type of paper enough of you are going to do a lot of paper craft project. A warning though, it's addictive and you'll find yourself wanting to buy them all and then some more.

These are pretty much the arts and craft supplies and tools I use the most frequently. Note that all the links pointing to Amazon are affiliate links, if you purchase anything, I get paid a comission (at no extra cost to you).

I recently mentioned in passing that I got myself a Fitbit Chrage HR to help in my fitness and weight-loss quest. The suggestion came after I brought up my need to keep my heart rate up during workouts to my trusted group of friends.

At the time, said friend was in Europe and asked me if I wanted her to bring one back for me as they are way cheaper over there than in India.
I had been using a pedometer app on my phone for quite a few years (cardio trainer if you were curious to know). That app kept me going on my walk, but it had a whole set of limitations.

The first one being that it only really worked somewhat accurately if put on the GPS and converting the distances into steps taking my stride into accounts.
The app plain old SUCKED registering vibrations indoors (counting more steps than actually taken).
All that while I was very curious to know how many steps I actually do take in my everyday life (you know, cleaning, roaming around...)

The Fitbit offered a whole set of new tools I could use to keep myself on track more efficiently : sleep recording, heart rate monitoring, constant calorie counting and YES recording every single steps taken at any given time during the day.
In short, I was interested in knowing how intense my workouts get, and how active I truly am during the day.

The good new is that Fitbit pretty much delivered.

The downside, which is expected with every fitness bands and apps out there, is that yes it has its limitations.

So much so, I decided to give you a rundown of my experience with the Fitbit Charge HR

Step counting

As far as step counting goes it is VERY accurate. I tested it inside my flat diligently counting my steps and comparing them to the Fitbit's count, give or take 1 or 2 steps it is accurate. It does a great job at registering which movements are actually steps, as opposed as gesticulating like a lunatic in your kitchen cooking dinner.

That said, the tracker is a tad bit sensitive and there are some situations where it does record steps you never took, or situation during which you actually are on your feet walking but steps are not counted.

On Indian bumpy roads, expect to be told you walked a few steps even though you were sitting in a car or auto. On my daily rides it usually end up registering about 5-600 steps I never took.

It also tends to go wild when I am mopping the floor in my flat. I do take steps during that activity, but not as many as it counts.

It also doesn't count much of anything if you are pushing a shopping cart in a supermarket. This is probably because your arm is locked into place and the vibration registered by the tracker are minimal.

In the grand scheme of things however, there is not much to worry about, chances are that in an active day the steps it counted while you were commuting will balance all the steps you took but weren't counted during activities such as grocery shopping. Not to mention that you can't go in the shower with your tracker and you will end up walking a few steps without while you get ready in the morning or after a workout.

To compensate the "bumpy road steps" I usually remove my Fitbit for an hour while I clean around, that way the 600 steps taken are still meaningful.

Heart rate monitoring

Not all Fitbit track it, but the Charge HR does. It has a constant heart rate monitoring feature (the two green LED lights inside the band).

This was the one thing I was looking for as for me, the heart rate is paramount to workout right in order to loose weight (thanks to a sluggish metabolism). I needed a tool that let me instantly know when my walking pace needs to be more intense.

It also helps me reach the cardio zone in aerobic workouts and stay there.

It is really accurate and I found it totally reflects the numbers registered by my doctor during my medical weight management assessment.

Sleep monitoring

This was one of the feature I was not really looking out for in a band but is still handy to have. I am a light sleeper, and I always wondered how much of my actual sleep is good sleep.

Turns out Fitbit does a fantastic job at pointing out how restless I can be while catching some ZZZZs.

I knew that of course, but not to that extent. And on many a night I woke up from feeling not so fresh, Fitbit confirmed my sleep pattern was all over the place.

This has helped me adjust my schedule in order to really sleep those 7.5 or 8 hours I need a night, and yes, shockingly it means going to bed earlier to compensate for the restlessness I go through.

Since I started doing this, I do wake up feeling fresher, and stay more productive during the day.

Calories counting

Let's start going into the sketchier areas of Fitbit shall we?

When you set up your Fitbit, it accurately determine your basal metabolic rate based on your age, height and weight. It then calculate how much calories above that you will burn from taking around 10k steps and be fully ACTIVE for at least 60 minutes a day (as in doing a workout activity).

For me, it is estimated I should burn a grand total of 2407 calories a day (including my BMR).

Fair enough!

It gets fuzzy when we come to how much calories Fitbit estimate you loose from walking, or any other fitness activity it either auto-recognise or the ones you log in manually (more on that later).

It pretty much ends up over-estimating the calories you spend walking at a brisk walk, but drastically UNDER-estimating the ones you burn while doing a more strenuous activity, like Swimming for example.

This is what it tells me :

Walking for 24 minutes at an average heart rate of 105 beats per minutes : 171 calories burned

Uhhh? Seriously? I was Swimming non stop at a steady pace and I felt my heart pumping most of the time doing so.

There is simply no way I burned as much as 171 calories walking for 24 minutes that day, and there is no question the amount I burned Swimming non stop was MUCH higher than that considering it did challenge far more muscle groups doing so.

So yeah, in the end, I would not really put too much stock in the calorie counting Fitbit displays.

At the end of the day, I know that if I worked out for 60 minutes and walked my 10k steps (which I do daily) I have burned those 2407 calories easily and probably went above on a Swimming or Aerobics day.

Workout Tracking

This is the other sketchy area of Fitbit, it tends to recognise SOME activities as active, and not other, even if your heart rate was in the "fat burn zone".

It's good at registering when you go on a brisk walk workout, or do an aerobic workout. It can't recognise you have been physically active if you climbed up and down a ladder carrying heavy boxes while cleaning your flat.

It also doesn't register activities like yoga (you can do all the Surya namaskars you want and get in the cardio zone, it won't pick it up). It sometimes carry some minutes of a weight lifting workout toward your Active minutes count, sometimes not.

For all those activities, you need to log them manually and even then, yoga will not count toward your active total. When you enter an activity manually, fitbit will try to correlate it with some of the data it already has (namely movement and heart rate).

Since the tracker is not waterproof, you'll always need to enter your swimming log manually as well, and for this activity, it'll make up a bogus heart rate along with the totally inaccurate calories count.

Stair climbing

Fitbit is equipped to track the number of floors your climbed in a day. It calculates that number based on movement and altitude (it apparently can detect air pressure differences or something). I counts each 10ft increase in altitude as a floor.

This means that it will count a couple of floors if you walk up a hill the same way it counts you climbing a flight of stairs.

Fortunately, it seems to recognise that an increase in altitude without significant movement and a normal heart rate means you are in an elevator, those floors are not counted.

But it does count an uphill bumpy car or auto ride as you climbing floors.

Food log and weight-loss

I left the worst of the worst for last!

DO NOT use this feature, it is the absolute worst food logging system I ever used, and it turns out I am not the only one cribbing about it, forums all over the internet are ranting about it.

Logging a food is not hard, you can manually enter stuff for a very accurate calories count. But Fitbit seems to think you can still loose 500g a week eating nearly 2000 calories a day.

Worse, it constantly put you in the "under budget" zone if you eat less than that.

I am on a 1100-1200 calories a day diet coupled with at least 2-300 calories of physical activity, and I am loosing about 500g a week worth of fat. A diet and fitness plan sanctioned by a doctor.

The last thing I need is a computer telling me "You are under budget, eat more".

With my high fiber, high protein and low carb food plan, I would probably end up with a severe stomach ache trying to eat that many calories anyway.

Interestingly, googling that Fitbit food log feature, I found out that many people gained weight following the calories intake/out-take plan set by Fitbit.

Needless to say it is the most unreliable feature coming with the app and band. Though I imagine a person with really really unhealthy eating habits could get a wake up call logging cookies and chips and end up eating less of them. That's probably what this feature was intended for.

So, is Fitbit Charge HR worth it?

I'd say yes, providing you use it to monitor your steps, activity levels and intensity and sleep. Don't put much score in the whole calories counting features and accept that no fitness tool is 100% foolproof in measuring you and your activity (there always be a margin of errors).

In the end Fitbit will do what all apps or fitness band does best if you are motivated: It holds you accountable and it makes it less easy to cheat on your fitness plan.

The biggest deterrent to getting this Fitbit model in India is the price. It sells at a MRP of 15K rupees. Amazon frequently offers it at a discount that competes with the European price these days though.

So if you want to get it, either check if you haven't a friend or relative flying to Europe who could pick it up at a steal price (especially in the Airport in duty free) or buy it when it is discounted on Amazon.

If you aren't particularly interested in the heart rate monitor, there are cheaper models from the brand available too.

Salads are awesome, they really are! As a kid I usually loved when my mom took us to eat to the department store cafeteria, solely because they had an amazing salad bar where you could build your own salad.
As I grew up, I even had my few favourite department stores eateries in mind, all ranked by the amazingness of their "Make your own salad" section.
As a singleton (and happy to be) my favourite way to spend a Saturday was to head downtown to walk around in the commercial streets, day dream in bookstores and have lunch in one of these cafeterias, alone, or with a friend.

That is how big on salad I am. I know, they aren't so popular in India. The main misconception regarding them is that it can't possibly be filling or nutritious.

WRONG!
Believe it or not, they are BOTH filling and HIGHLY nutritious, and with urban dwellers getting increasingly sendentary and the "lifestyle diseases" being on the rise, a salad meal might just be what the doctor ordered.

I know my dietetitian 100% approve on it, which makes my medical weight loss plan that much easier to follow since I already love them.

A salad meal is very different from a side salad. Mostly because there is more on the plate, and because it is NEVER just leaves.

The perfect salad has 6 steps you must follow in order to get something truly awesome

Care to learn how to pull a salad that will keep you full and nourished?

Let's dive in!

Step 1: Pick a green, or not so green base

This is your foundation, the ingredient upon which you will build your awesome salad. If you are making a green salad, that base will be obviously a lettuce or another leafy green stuff such as raw spinach, fenugreek, and amaranth leaves.

That doesn't mean ALL salads need to have a leafy base. It can be grain based. Take your pick from cold pasta, cold rice, couscous grains, quinoa, or bulgur wheat (dalia in Hindi).

If you aren't so nut about nuts, toss in a few croutons which is French for little cube of crunchy toasted bread.

Step 6: Your favourite dressing

A salad dressing is usually an oil medium with an acidic note to which you add aromatic herbs and elements.

The standard ratio for a salad dressing is 3 parts oil for one part vinegar plus the seasoning ingredients.

There are countless recipes for salad dressing you can try.

One of my favourite homemade dressing is an "Asian style" vinaigrette that I make in bulk and store in the fridge:

1/3 cup olive oil

1/3 cup sesame oil

1/4 cup rice vinegar

1/4 cup light soy sauce

2 grated cloves of garlic

half a thumb of freshly grated ginger

2 tbsp brown sugar

I blend all the ingredients in a blender and transfer to a glass bottle. It keeps fresh in the fridge for weeks, thanks to the vinegar and oil which are both great preservatives.

Drizzle a little of the dressing on your salad taking care not to drown it. A typical dinning plate size of salad will need about 1 and a half table spoon of dressing...NO MORE!

Voila! Your salad is ready

If you follow those 6 steps and filled your plate with it, I can GUARANTEE you that you will stay full for a couple of hours.

Keep in mind though that if your salad is grain based rather than leaves based, you might want to load it with more veggies from Step 2 in order to keep the grain serving small and healthy. Grains are still carbs and you don't need a huge amount of these if you aren't going to workout to burn it up.

In the case of a leafy salad, make sure your leaves cover and entire dinning plate before adding the topping elements.

If you carry your salad to work, DO NOT add the dressing to your salad when you pack it, the vinegar in the dressing will cook the leaves and make them mushy by lunch time. ALWAYS add your dressing to a salad at the last minute, right before eating it.

Let's wrap this week with a super easy and cute way to repurpose old glass bottles into pieces of home decor shall we?

If you followed my previously given advice on turning your rubbish into craft supplies, you probably hoarded collected a few (ok in my case, a lot) of glass bottles or jars that could totally transform your home decor (inexpensively I might add).

I myself went with those cute small rum and brandy bottles I kept refusing to throw in the trash in the past year or so, but any bottle will work just as well for this project. You can also pull it off with jars if bottles aren't your thing.

You'll need clean bottles or jars, a squeeze bottle or jar of Fevicol (white craft glue if you are outside India), a small bowl to pour the glue in, a small paint brush and twine in your choice of colours.

I bought a set of twine which came in an assortment of colours, which is why my twine bundles look small. If you know you are going to use only one colour, purchase a bigger bundle. You get the best effect using natural fiber twine like hemp, jute. If you can't find it in a store near you in India, there is always Amazon to the rescue.

Now, let the fun begin!

Squeeze some glue in a bowl, and with your paint brush, start coating the bottle with glue, a little bit a time.

Start wrapping your twine in the glue coated part of the bottle working your way up from the base to the neck.

When you reach an area without glue, brush some more and keep on wrapping the twine around.

If you want to change colour, cut the twine short, and start with a new coloured thread right next to where the previous thread ends.

Then, let it dry completely. You are pretty much done at this point, unless...

Once your bottles have dried, you can, if you wish, add some extras in the form of flowers, beads, tassels, stones, jewels or seashells.

My bottles looked a bit "coastal" so I am still experimenting with seashells. I didn't want anything too permanent at this point, I simply glued a seashell on a piece of ribbon to give one of my bottle a necklace (which can be removed).

My bottles are pretty much just decorative, but you can totally apply the technique to bottles and jars you will use to store food stuff in.

As a kid I still remember a year when my parents got us to pick kilos of plums in an orchard, they sent the plums to a distillery to make fruit liquor.

Then, my sister and I were put the task to decorate a few 1 litre bottles with twine and little plum felt cutouts.

This became that year's family homemade Christmas gift for family and friends (because we can't do jam and cookies every year, or painted coasters for that matter).

I know some of my family members who kept the bottle and refilled it with less artisanal liquors over the year simply because you don't throw such a stinking cute bottle away.

Imagine how striking a row of twine wrapped jars would look like in your kitchen...oh the possibilities!

Now I will stop rambling and it is time for you guys to get wrapping already!

For many of you, abroad this signals Fall and the arrival of Pumkin flavoured everything. For many in India this means the end of the monsoon and cooler days.
Unless you live in Mumbai where you'll wish for the rain to hang in there as long as it can because once the rains stop it becomes hot and humid as hell again.
By the end of the month, Summer has pretty much reloaded itself for close to two months over here.

What is very "Fall-sy" in India is the arrival of Apples straight from Kashmir and other Himalayan States.
We get apples year round but they are imported the rest of the year. In September and October, they are domestic.

I love apples, and in the honour of their return, I made one the object of my September Calendar page.

September also marks the real beginning of the Festive Season in Mumbai, with Ganesh Chaturthi coming this Monday.
Shops around town are already selling flowers, idols, lights and modaks (a rice flour sweet dumpling).
Then later in the month kids will be on holiday for the Muslim festival of Bakri-Eid and Ganesh's Visarjan during which Ganesh Idols are immersed into the water.

Have a happy September!

2016 has come and gone, and I removed the links to the files. If you are looking for a calendar printable know that my 2017 edition is up for download, find it out in this blog post.

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